Updated Text Retrieval Systems for Windows
Announced by Virginia Systems

August 29, 2003 Midlothian, Virginia. Virginia Systems announced today that it is shipping a Windows version of its flagship products Sonar, Sonar Professional, and Sonar Image.

The new versions have an improved PDF filter for searching and displaying Adobe Acrobat files, including those created with Acrobat 6. The retrieval systems maintain compatibility with their Macintosh counter parts, providing a powerful cross-platform search and retrieval solution.

Searches can be performed using Boolean, proximity, and wild cards for both Sonar and Sonar Professional. The Professional version can also do synonym, concept, phonetic and quorum searches, generate reports, create hypertext links, find word associations, allow for annotations, and much, much more.

A free demo of the Sonar Professional system is available on Virginia Systems' web site at: www.virginiasystems.com

Sonar costs $295, Sonar Professional costs $795, and Sonar Image costs $1,295 for a single user license. Volume discounts are available. Sonar can be updated for $150, Sonar Professional can be upated for $300, and Sonar Image for $350.

Virginia Systems was founded in 1984 and specializes in document imaging, text retrieval, automatic index-generation, cross-referencing, and footnote software.